8 Best adventure books like Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail by Karsten Heuer

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Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

By: Karsten Heuer

3.95

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Banff Book Award for Mountain Literature, Walking the Big Wild is the account of Kars…

If you liked the adventure plot in Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail by Karsten Heuer , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)

By: Rick Yancey

4.01

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd,… read more

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"Time for the world to end."

-Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)

"And then Evan Walker kisses me."

-Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)

"Is this how humanity waves good-bye? Hell no."

-Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)

"His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield."

-Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)

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2. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

By: Jacqueline Kelly

3.99

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in… read more

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"Y cuando algo es todo lo que sabes hacer, es fácil aguantar."

-Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

"Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really."

-Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

"It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look."

-Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

"Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really."

-Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)

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3. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

By: Sy Montgomery

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature

4. The Infinite Sea (The 5th Wave, #2)

By: Rick Yancey

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. Surviving the f… read more

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5. The Art of Racing in the Rain

By: Garth Stein

3.99

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsessio… read more

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6. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stori… read more

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7. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

By: Jon Krakauer

4.38

Format: 234 pages,

A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Kraka… read more

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8. Two in the Far North

By: Terry Tempest Williams , Margaret E. Murie , Olaus Johan Murie

3.59

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the … read more

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9. A Walk in the Woods

By: Bill Bryson

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more

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10. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more

Similar categories in Mary Roach's Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • environment
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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11. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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12. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

By: Nick Offerman

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about … read more

Similar categories in Nick Offerman's Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • nature
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
"...when you make art with confidence, then clumsiness doesn't play as clumsiness, but panache."

-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

"Break up your cycle. Get out of your rut. Find a way in your normal setting to "feel alive." One thing I'll do is get up early and see the sunrise from my yard, or for some bonus points, from my roof…"

-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

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13. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

By: Conor Knighton

4.26

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more

Similar categories in Conor Knighton's Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

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14. Greenwood

By: Michael Christie

4.33

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more

Similar categories in Michael Christie's Greenwood book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • environment
  • nature
"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

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15. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic

By: Adam Shoalts

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more

Similar categories in Adam Shoalts's Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
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16. Was It Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home

By: Doug Peacock

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.” Edward Abbey In a collection of grip… read more

Similar categories in Doug Peacock's Was It Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • adventure
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17. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

By: James Rebanks

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more

Similar categories in James Rebanks's Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • environment
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

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18. A Wild Idea

By: Jonathan Franklin

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In 1991, Doug Tompkins abandoned his comfortable life in San Francisco and flew 6,500 miles south t… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Franklin's A Wild Idea book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
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19. Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

By: Heather Anish Anderson

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appal… read more

Similar categories in Heather Anish Anderson's Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
"At least now I knew that my heart was wedded to the mountains--to the wild places. It was there, and there alone, that I was whole, contented, and blissful. No relationship, career, or wealth could e…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I refuse to let this suffering be for nothing. In fact, I refuse to suffer." I whispered to myself as I pushed each tent stake into the ground. "I can adapt. I am adapting." Another long day was done…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I want to set a record. Not just any record, but an athletic record. One that everyone will know me for. One that my dad will be proud of. I don't know what it will be, but I will do it. I have a lot…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

"I'd failed to live up to the expectations of my parents. I had not utilized my education in any real way and I'd given up on my marriage. For the first time, I accepted that I could not meet the expe…"

-Heather Anish Anderson, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

Cover of Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border by Porter Fox

20. Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

By: Porter Fox

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

America’s northern border is the world’s longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure eve… read more

Similar categories in Porter Fox's Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
"Most people don't travel anymore. They arrive. Unless you're riding the slow boat. Then you see every mile."

-Porter Fox, Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

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21. Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

By: Karsten Heuer

3.95

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Banff Book Award for Mountain Literature, Walking the Big Wild is the account of Kars… read more

Similar categories in Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail book and Karsten Heuer's Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail

  • ecology
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • conservation
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature

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4.33

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3.84

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Andrea Lankford

3.76

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3.71

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John Scalzi

4.16

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Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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